DUBLIN and BOSTON, Oct. 20,
2016 /PRNewswire/ -- There are 25 million students
nationwide that begin and end their day with a trip on a school
bus1. In honor of National School Bus Safety Week, which
occurs October 17 – 21, 2016,
Fleetmatics Group (NYSE: FLTX), a leading global provider of mobile
workforce solutions for service-based businesses of all sizes
delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS), commissioned KRC
Research to conduct a survey to examine U.S. confidence in school
bus safety, and identify the top areas for improvement.
The results find that close to three fourths of Americans (71
percent) are confident in the current state of school bus
safety. In fact, nearly 8 in 10 Americans (79 percent) are
confident in the timeliness of their school buses, suggesting a
high level of trust that parents and students will not be left
waiting.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
school buses are the safest mode of school transportation as they
have to meet more Federal safety standards than any other type of
motor vehicle2. By comparison, a sampling of
Fleetmatics' customer data found school buses are some of the
safest commercial vehicles, with less speeding and harsh breaking
incidents, than vehicles in other industries, such as social
services and medical3.
Based on the survey results, many Americans agree there is room
for improvement and want to take steps to more closely monitor
school bus driver safety. Specifically, it found that close to half
of respondents believe the following should be improved on school
buses: more rigorous screening for drivers (55 percent), better
tracking technology (45 percent) and more ways for parents and
school officials to monitor (44 percent).
"School bus safety is an important issue, and our survey
confirmed that a majority of people do have confidence in school
bus systems, which is great news," said Kathleen Finato, Chief Marketing Officer for
Fleetmatics. "However, half of respondents said they
still want better technology in school buses, such as GPS tracking
that can help drivers, parents and school officials gain better
insight into the vehicle location and activity."
The survey also found that Americans want to be able to keep
track of school buses with their digital devices. When asked which
technologies should be integrated into school buses in the future,
respondents thought that routing software for buses to find
alternative routes (40 percent), GPS tracking allowing parents and
school officials to know the exact location of the bus (51
percent), and a downloadable app for tracking (50 percent) were
important.
Fleetmatics provides mobile workforce solutions for
service-based businesses of all sizes, delivered as
software-as-a-service (SaaS). The company's solutions help
businesses to meet challenges associated with managing local
fleets, and improve productivity of mobile workforces, by
extracting actionable business intelligence on vehicle and driver
behavioral data.
About Fleetmatics Group PLC
Fleetmatics Group PLC (NYSE: FLTX) is a leading global provider
of mobile workforce solutions for service-based businesses of all
sizes delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS). Our solutions
enable businesses to meet the challenges associated with managing
local fleets, and improve the productivity of their mobile
workforces, by extracting actionable business intelligence from
real-time and historical vehicle and driver behavioral data.
Fleetmatics Group's intuitive, cost-effective Web-based
solutions provide fleet operators with visibility into vehicle
location, fuel usage, speed and mileage, and other insights into
their mobile workforce, enabling them to reduce operating and
capital costs, as well as increase revenue. An integrated,
full-featured mobile workforce management product provides
additional efficiencies related to job management by empowering the
field worker and speeding the job completion process – quote
through payment. As of June 30, 2016,
Fleetmatics served approximately 38,000 customers and approximately
757,000 subscribed vehicles worldwide. To learn more about
Fleetmatics, visit www.fleetmatics.com.
Media Contact:
Juli
Burda
Fleetmatics
Juli.Burda@Fleetmatics.com
847-378-4398
Footnotes:
1National Safety Council – Buses are the Safest Mode of
Transportation for School Children
http://www.nsc.org/learn/safety-knowledge/Pages/news-and-resources-school-bus-safety-rules.aspx
2National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration –
August 2014
http://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/Safety1nNum3ers/august2014/S1N_School_Bus_Issue-August.pdf
3Fleetmatics customer data sample – Oct 1, 2015 - Sept 30,
2016
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